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Faculty, researchers and students from The University of New Mexico’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics represented New Mexico at MathSciOnTheHill, a national advocacy event focused on federal support for the mathematical sciences, held Jan. 8 on...

A total of 449 students from 35 schools across New Mexico took part in the first round of the 2025–2026 UNM-PNM Statewide High School Mathematics Contest, held recently at 17 testing sites across the state.

More than 90 middle school students from across New Mexico gathered at the University of New Mexico (UNM) on Saturday for the first-ever New Mexico Math Meet (NM3), an in-person, team-based math competition. The event was directed by Sean Choi, a New...

Three Lobos, Alex Knigge, Anthony Languit, and Tanisha Medha are among the 2025-2026 Goldwater Scholars who were selected from a pool of 1,350 college sophomores and juniors nominated by 445 academic institutions. Founded in recognition of U.S. Senator...

When Tara Palomares isn’t teaching math at Albuquerque's Sandia High School, she’s in a different classroom as a doctoral student in the Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education Program at The University of New Mexico. While she's well known locally in...

The University of New Mexico hosts Carnegie Mellon University Professor Po-Shen Loh, who will deliver two special events Feb. 7-8 as part of the UNM-PNM Math Contest. Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor, working across the spectrum of mathematics,...

Matthew Blair, professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of New Mexico recently received a Frontiers of Science Award at the inaugural International Congress on Basic Science. This congress took place in Beijing during...

This summer, kids throughout Albuquerque with a love for math got to engage in a truly unique camp experience, thanks to the Department of Mathematics & Statistics. The Science and Mathematics Learning Center (SMLC) came alive with 47 campers aged 9-16,...

The instability of Stokes waves (steady propagating waves on the surface of an ideal fluid with infinite depth) represents a fundamental challenge in the realm of nonlinear science. A team of researchers recently identified the origin of breaking oceanic...

Terry Loring, distinguished professor of Mathematics and Statistics, recently published and co-authored a new research piece involving his research on K-theory with the major advances in applications to critical problems in physics. The new research...